Podcast

Episode 20 of my – Podcast – Letter from The Cape – is now available. Coming today from The Cape, Victoria, Australia. In this episode, I discuss recent media commentary on Japan, which exposes falsehoods about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) that prevail even among people who have held high-level positions in government policy-making departments. Duration:…

Episode 19 of my – Podcast – Letter from The Cape – is now available. Coming today from The Cape, Victoria, Australia. In this episode, I discuss the mess that privatisation and public-private partnerships have created. I note that these arrangements were all justified by the claim that the governments had run out of money…

Episode 17 of my – Podcast – Letter from The Cape – is now available. Coming today from Kyoto, Japan In this episode, I discuss the warped sense of priorities when a nation can see their way to fund and supply massive quantities of military equipment that is being used to murder thousands of people…

Episode 16 of my – Podcast – Letter from The Cape – is now available. Coming today from Kyoto, Japan In this episode, we discuss the way that governments shed their responsibilities to provide adequate housing and public infrastructure through the use of the ‘de-risking’ narrative. This is core neoliberalism and has been used to…

Episode 15 of my – Podcast – Letter from The Cape – is now available. In this episode, we consider the recently released White Paper on Full Employment by the Australian government, which purports to define its labour market policy agenda for the foreseeable future. We juxtapose it with the 1945 White Paper on Full…

Episode 14 of my – Podcast – Letter from The Cape – is now available. In this episode, we consider the so-called Intergenerational Report, which the Australian government released this week. These Reports are released every few years and are designed to scare us into believing that unless the government cuts spending and services now…

Episode 13 of my – Podcast – Letter from The Cape – is now available. In this episode, we consider the concept of productivity and discover that the mainstream bias towards a narrow interpretation – where a productive worker is only one that generates profits for a private capitalist – prevents us from fully understanding…

Episode 12 of my – Podcast – Letter from The Cape – is now available. In this episode, we discuss the ‘debt bomb’ narrative, which is used by neoliberals to impose political costs on governments that dare use their spending capacity to improve the conditions of the poor through welfare spending. We learn that governments…

Episode 11 of my – Podcast – Letter from The Cape – is now available. In this episode we reflect on the recent Royal Commission report in Australia into the Robodebt scandal where conservative government ministers and senior public servants designed and implemented a scheme that was knowingly illegal, and, which imposed untold harm on…